Shops
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The parcel of land immediately to the north of Westgarth Street Northcote was solid in 1837 to George...
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Drawing from a number of sources, including local newspapers and street directories, this history gives a...
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Agnes Glew and her husband George arrived in the colony of Victoria 1852. They immediately began a family....
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Horace and Edwin Bastings arrived in Victoria in 1849 and after a period on the goldfields, established...
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In 1879 Gottlieb Seeber set up a butcher's shop on the northwest corner of High Street and Regent Stree...
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Gioacchino and Domenico Carelli came out to Australia from Vizzini in Sicily in 1952. They were tailors and...
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German born Carl Oldenberg started his saddlery in High Street, South Preston in the early 1890s.
Around...
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The first Chinese market gardens appeared in Northcote in 1887. The Chinese had arrived in Victoria in large...
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No. 215 St. Georges Road, Northcote represents the typical shop found on this road during the 1920s and 30s....
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In 1915 a combined corner store and home was built on the corner of Wales Street and Speight Street...
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No. 65 Jessie Street Preston began life as a normal double fronted Edwardian home but in 1921 a small shop...
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The Wood family arrived in Preston in 1850 well prepared for their new life. Equipped with household...
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Fern Confectionary Palace was opened in 1914 at 222 High Street Northcote. It was run by Mrs West and was...
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Fred Poole opened his coffee palace in 1891 only a block up from Mary Cunningham’s Coffee Haven at 77...
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The first ironmonger/produce store at 795 High Street was established by A. Freeman in 1911. Four years...
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In 1881 Harry John Ramus Gill arrived in Northcote and set up refreshment rooms on the west side of High...
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Joseph Harvey arrived in Preston around 1893/94 and established himself as a grocer on the west side of High...
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Horace Bastings was born in Islington, London in 1831 and arrived in Northcote either in the late 1840s or...
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Hubert Leslie Wood (1874-1940) was the third generation owner-operator of the General Store on High Street,...
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J. M. Howard established his small boot making business on the west side of Plenty Road in 1912. Near the...
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At 4 o’clock on the afternoon of 9 March 1921 Northcote’s High Street was shattered by the sound of three...
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John McNamara was born in Collingwood in 1859. He started his career at a oilcloth factory in Northcote...
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Mark Sharp established a business as a bootmaker at 394 (later renumbered 422) High Street Northcote in 1896....
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Mary Cunningham operated one of two coffee palaces which opened in Plenty Road Preston in 1891.
Coffee...
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From the early 1900s the Italian Government had been keen to alleviate the suffering of its poorer citizens...
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The first chemist in Northcote was established on the corner of High Street and Separation Street Northcote...
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The Nelsons were living in Madeline Street (now the Carlton end of Swanston Street) in 1877 when their tenth...
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The Northcote Biscuit Company opened at 1 Bent Street Northcote in 1936/7. A building had been there since at...
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Northland was originally built and owned by the Myer Emporium. When it opened for business on Tuesday 4th of...
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Oliver Gilpin was a well known chain store proprietor in the early 1900s. Experienced in the drapers...
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Norman Outram established his hairdressing business in High Street Thornbury in 1922. As was common in those...
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The general store on the corner of Darebin Road and Salisbury Grove opened in 1890 with Mark Peters as the...
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Construction on the Preston Market began in October 1969 when Preston Mayor W. K. Larkins drove home the...
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Thomas White established his saddlery at in a timber building at 759 High Street, Thornbury in 1887.
In...
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The first Chemist store in Northcote was established by a Mr. Turner who operated his business from a timber...
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Arriving in Preston in 1875 with his wife Anna (1844-1927), Samuel Bartett purchased seven acres of land on...
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Samuel White set up his boot making business in a small weatherboard building on the east side of High...
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Sargent’s Cakes at 40 Edwardes Street Reservoir was established in 1952 by James Percy G. Sargent and his son...
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The first known shop in Northcote was an ironmongers operating from a tent and started by William Shade in...
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Charles Stephenson opened his grocery store in Plenty Road, South Preston in 1903. In 1911 he moved to 357 -...
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Sands and McDougall’s Melbourne and Suburban Directory 1864- 1974. [Microfiche]. (1974). Melbourne,...
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Richard Weaver operated a grocery store in High Street, Northcote in the 1860s. It was located on the east...
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William Inglis was the founder of a well known timber and hardware store on the corner of Plenty Rd and...
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When William Shade arrived in Northcote in 1848 the town was little more than a few scattered huts with High...
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Ward, Andrew (2001). Darebin Heritage Review 2000. Burwood, Vic: City Of Darebin.
